The Arizona champion., 1887-01-01


 fine sheep as can be found in any country. hey have about I.soo American merino rams on their different ranges, which are bred from the best aocks of the States of Yer mont and California. Some of the rams 1rom which their present stock are bred cost as high as from $roo to SI5o each. It is not an uncommon thing for these fine bred ami. mals to shear forty pounds of wool for the years clip.
 The firm has sold this yesr about 1000 head of merinos, all raised upon the ranges around Flagstaff, which have realized from sS to SI2 per head. It Is becoming known that there is great advantage derived from purchasing rams raised in this locality, which are more valuable than those shipped from the east, from the fact that they are nat. urally adapted to the climate. Rams shipped from distant points (no matter how fine the animals may bel have to be fed on grain and hay until they become aeclimated, while the native born subslst entirely upon the grasses which are the product of the soil.
 In addition to these imported merinos |, they have an immense herd of stock sheep, the larger portion of which gre what are called California merinos.
 Messrs. Daggs Bros. & Go. have been awarded the firSt premium of the Territorial Exposition of New Mexico, held at Albu. querque, for three consecutive years-I884.s { and 6-and their business extends over the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as portion of Colorado. They com menced the sheep business here in 1878, driv- ing across the desert from Ca lifornia about I,5oo head of merino s,.T?as and located them iiSt Just about the spst where Flagstaff is now situated, and at that time all the wool clip had 10 be transported from this point to Trinidad, Colorado,by bull teams. distance of over 500 miles. To show how their busi. ness has grown since those days when the wool was hauled across the plaius, ther ship ments during the last season over the A. & P. railroad was little over zso 900 ponnds, bringing an average net price at this point of I cents per pound, and therefore realizing the handsome sum of s57,Soo.
 The loss on tie floc<S of this firm during the present year, both from climate and acci- dent, will not exceed 4 per cent.
 Messrs. DaSgs Bros. X Co. have generally sold their wool through the commission house of Christy & Wise, of San Francisco, Califorma, firm who, it is claimed, handled majority of the wool shipped from this vi- cinity during the past year.
 CATTLE AND SHEEP GROWERS.
 The Rabbit Bros. who located here last spring, having come from Cincinnati, Ohio have herd of I,soo fine grade cattle. Their range is in the San Francisco mountains.
 F. NJ. Vanderlip and W. B. VanderIIp arc also newcomers, the former coming from Santa Ana, Cal, and the latter from Elkhart, Ind. Their range Ia m the Mogollon. mount. ,ins, where they have large band of cattl c and horses.
 The firm of Brannnn, Finney & Branuen also have their range in the Mogollons, where they have large herds of cattle and horses.
 Walter ]. Hill was one of the earliest pic. neer saeep breed ITS O. the Flagstaff district , !l..e came here ten years ago wish compara. lively small flock. His sheep how number over Iz,ooo very fine grade animals. Mir, Hill is resident of the town of Flagstaf, and m. of opr mos. -n,erprisina ri,i,ens One of the largest and most successful sheep breeders of this locality is Tnos. Mo I Milan, who has locks of sheep numbering altogether over, Io, 900. Mir. McMIllan IS one Of the most popular of our sheep men, and [ man of large and extensive experience in the business.
 Milboune & Bell (Robert W. and Jos. D B.ll) arc young but enterprising sheep men, Their focks are near the Little Colorado, which is an excellent winter range. Thi, firm commenced the business but a short tim, ago, but they are all plucky and industrious boys, and fortune is Tn store for them in th ( near future.
 | /Ralph Cameron is another young sheep man who has been most successful durini the short time he has been handling sheeE and wool. He is also located near the Colo rado rser for the winter season.
 Al. Doyle has an extensive herd of cat tie on his range at the Magellan mountains w. NJ. Fain is other of our prominen cattle growers Of the Mogollon mountains.
 Ackers & Walker have about I,soo hea' of cattle on their Apache Maid range, in sh Aogollons.
 Among the sheep breeders here. one of th most extensive is Harry Fulton who own something like 10000 head.
 D. F. Hart's range is on upper Oak creek where he has fine band of cattle. Wm. M Munds, w. II. Ashurst, Lockitts Bros., C. H Shulz, John Clark, P. B. Rumsey, Harr Marun. Mehrens & Sherman, w. E. Lock wood, w. D. Black, w. G. Stewart, Joh Marshall, Lot Smith, the Aztec Company Messrs. Rosildo, TapPan. Howell, Reame and the Perrine Land and Cattle Company and others are among the prominent cattl and sheep growers of this section of Ari zona.
 The most extensive horse breeders ar James Allen, the Mormonderry Company Philip Hull, Acker & Walker, Branner Finney & Brannen, Mehrens & Sherman
 Harry Fulton, J. P. Williams and the AT . zona Cattle Company.
 There are two sociations in connectio with the cattle interests-rhe Mogollon Liv ,, Stock Protective Association, whose office , arc: w. II. Ashrrst, president; Al. Doyl, [ treasurer, and w. G. Stewart, secretary an